Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Founder & Software Architect, EngineYard

Ezra is known as a heavy open source contributor in the Ruby community, especially regarding deployment. Ezra took to Rails in 2004 and helped found Engine Yard in mid-2006. Ezra published a complete Rails deployment book through The Pragmatic Programmers in early 2007.

In this talk we will explore the state of the art deployment options for large scale ruby web apps. Ruby web apps become ecosystems of many moving parts over time as they scale. We will outline a scalable architecture for configuring, building, maintaining and scaling the system as a cohesive whole. We will explore technologies like rabbitmq, chef, nanite and EY's new cloud hosting platform.
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